Racism and Discrimination

Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in the South Bronx in New York City on May 23, 2024.

Aligning With Trump’s Toxic Whiteness Will Never Keep You Safe Aligning With Trump’s Toxic Whiteness Will Never Keep You Safe

Many non-white communities increased their support for the president. He’s targeting them anyway.

Aug 29, 2025 / Kali Holloway

An image from the 1971 film “Chicano Moratorium: A Question of Freedom.”

Why the Chicano Moratorium Still Matters Why the Chicano Moratorium Still Matters

55 years ago, young Chicano activists took to the streets to proclaim, “our fight is in the barrio, not Vietnam.” Their protest still resonates to this day.

Aug 29, 2025 / Bill Gallegos

A pro-Trump protester outside the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse, where Trump was given an unconditional discharge in January 2025.

MAGA Conservatives Are Terrified of the Future MAGA Conservatives Are Terrified of the Future

Trump and his followers don’t just want to halt progress. They want to turn back the clock.

Aug 18, 2025 / Column / Chris Lehmann

When Hospitals Act Like ICE

When Hospitals Act Like ICE When Hospitals Act Like ICE

These patients needed long-term care. Instead, the hospitals pushed for them to be deported.

Aug 14, 2025 / Feature / Liset Cruz

Ordinary Egyptians show their support for Palestinians, but their government leaves them in legal and political limbo.

We Left Gaza. But Our Pain Came With Us. We Left Gaza. But Our Pain Came With Us.

Palestinians who escaped the horrors of Gaza face a new trauma: the dislocation of exile from our homeland.

Aug 13, 2025 / Feature / Mohammed R. Mhawish

An advertisement featuring actress Sydney Sweeney outside an American Eagle store in New York City, on August 4. American Eagle Outfitters Inc. shares surged after US President Donald Trump came out in support of a controversial ad from the company featuring actress Sydney Sweeney.

Why the Right Is So Giddy About Sydney Sweeney’s Blue Jeans Campaign Why the Right Is So Giddy About Sydney Sweeney’s Blue Jeans Campaign

At first, they wanted to claim progressives were delusional for seeing a slide back into white supremacy in the American Eagle ad. Now they’re boasting about it.

Aug 6, 2025 / Joan Walsh

The tower at the University of Texas in April 2024 in Austin.

Texas Ended In-State Tuition for Undocumented Immigrants. Students Are Already Feeling the Impact. Texas Ended In-State Tuition for Undocumented Immigrants. Students Are Already Feeling the Impact.

“The message is loud and clear: You’re good enough to pick vegetables or clean hotel rooms, but not to go to college.”

Aug 4, 2025 / StudentNation / Lajward Zahra

A man in a collared shirt and tie rides a motorcycle in Little Rock, Arkansas.

“Declared Intention”: My Immigration Story, and Ours “Declared Intention”: My Immigration Story, and Ours

Like many Americans, I may only be one generation away from birthright citizenship—a concept that defined this country’s promise for so many immigrants.

Jul 30, 2025 / Robert Pinsky

Ronald Reagan signing the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act.

What We Can Learn About Immigration From an Unlikely Source: Ronald Reagan What We Can Learn About Immigration From an Unlikely Source: Ronald Reagan

Rather than deporting millions of migrants, this Republican president opted for the opposite strategy—legalizing them.

Jul 28, 2025 / Brad Swanson

A community member holds a candle by the “Say Their Names” art installation cemetery with headstones representing Black people killed by police, during a vigil marking the fifth anniversary of George Floyd's death, at George Floyd Square in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 25, 2025.

It Has Never Been Easy to Be Both Black and American It Has Never Been Easy to Be Both Black and American

The administration knows that subduing history as it is doing works to keep people of color in this country disunited and at odds with each other.

Jul 28, 2025 / Keenan Norris

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